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According to his profession, he went point by point on the individual U-Committee test subjects, but could not say anything about most of them. He had no perceptions of political influence, neither to hold office nor to buy the law.
“In summary, I cannot give any information on test subjects three, five, six and eight. Not because I don’t remember, but because I was not involved,” said the lawyer. He did have some insights on the subject of evidence 7: personnel policy in state-owned companies. After all, Asfinag belongs entirely to the Republic.
In his opening speech, Franzmayr referred to the turbulent times in Asfinag after the change of government from red-black to turquoise blue. Both members of the Asfinag board said goodbye. “We were able to draw on internal candidates for both appointments to the executive board (replacement, note) in order to calm the company down again.” In his first questioning by the procedural judge, the lawyer specifically addressed Siegfried Stieglitz, who was also sent to the commission by then-FPÖ Transport Minister Norbert Hofer and is no longer a member, who has no perceptions about others. appointments – on Asfinag’s supervisory board.
“Do you know that Dr. Stieglitz made donations to associations?” Judge Wolfgang Rohrer asked. “I took that from the media,” Franzmayer said at first, but then also: “He told me on the phone that he had made a donation. I don’t know exactly what organization.” The same applies to the donation amount.
SPÖ’s man, Christoph Matznetter, wanted to know if he had spoken to Hofer prior to his appointment. “Yes,” Franzmayr said after being asked to do this job, “at BMVIT.” But he no longer knows exactly when it was: “in time for the actual order.”
Matznetter asked if he had spoken to the turquoise blue government “postal distributors” Arnold Schiefer (FPÖ) or Thomas Schmid (ÖVP; then Secretary General of the Ministry of Finance) about appointments to the executive board. Everything happened according to the rules of procedure of the supervisory board of Asfinag, so Franzmayr. “That means I only spoke to my deputy and the recruiter who had been appointed, who also shortlisted, about the specific names and the people who applied for the respective positions.” Then he came to the audience to make a shortlist.
Matznetter also called Schiefer the “hinge” of the blue posts. He, Franzmayr, should say whether he could determine the 2: 1 ratio of ÖVP and FPÖ to Asfinag’s supervisory council during his reign. “I can’t do that,” Franzmayr said. He doesn’t even have a party book.
The now head of the city of Wels also read a letter of thanks from the Minister of Transport, Leonore Gewessler (Greens) during his interrogation, in which he thanked him for his commitment and work as head of the supervisory board of Asfinag. Franzmayr wanted the letter, according to which it had worked well for the company and the republic, to be put on file. He had become chairman of Asfinag’s supervisory board in 2018 when Hofer was Minister of Transport. Later, Gewessler relieved him of this role.
SPÖ and NEOS announced at the Ibiza inquiry commission that they would invite former ÖVP vice chancellor and party leader Reinhold Mitterlehner. The leader of the SPÖ parliamentary group, Jan Krainer, justified this with the fact that the former vice chancellor wrote a book in which he describes Kurz’s “donation demonstrations”. The U-Committee is investigating the question: How does the Kurz system work ?, said Krainer, who also provided the answer: First the donations are embedded, then there is consideration in the form of positions on supervisory boards or laws that are provided to donors. says Krainer. The SPÖ wanted to continue with this question on the day of today’s poll.
NEOS wants to request that Kathrin Glock, wife of weapons manufacturer Gaston Glock, show up for Thursday after its cancellation, per NEOS Helmut Brandstätter’s mandate. Because if you look at her Instagram account, she is a “woman who loves to travel and likes to be with people.” In addition, he said before the closure that he would not come. Brandstätter suggested that Glock could be interrogated in an adjoining room where she was interrogated by video. He criticized the non-suspension of the U-Committee during the confinement: “If you take the confinement seriously, you could have waited two weeks.”
The ÖVP, for its part, wants to focus on the Ibiza video on Thursday. After all, the video was offered to the third person, former SPÖ federal manager Thomas Drozda and former party leader Christian Kern, faction leader Wolfgang Gerstl said. So at least the party’s lawyer was discussed. The question is: “What did the SPÖ know?” In the archives there would be many people close to the SPÖ. Because Drozda’s statement is not yet on file with the investigating authorities, it will probably be necessary “for us to load Drozda again,” Gerstl said. Former Chancellor Christian Kern also wants to invite Gerstl to join the U-Committee in this regard.
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